Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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Image 324 of 63223rd April 1783


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Saint Mary White Chapel in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty third Day of April in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third , by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
William Manche< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Youings< no role > , Abraham Brown< no role > , John Hammond< no role > , William Phillips< no role > , John Revell< no role >
Thomas Trickey< no role > , John Smith< no role > , John Andrews< no role > , Thomas Lesslie< no role > , John Tann< no role >
Benjamin Rice< no role > This name instance is in set 3176. , Samuel Monk< no role > and James Burnett< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said William Manche< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Manche< no role > being an Infant
of the Age of Eight Years or thereabouts on the Nineteenth Day of April in the
year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell in to a Pond of
Water situate in a Field in the Parish of Saint George in the County aforesaid
And was in the Watersthereofof the said Pond then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said
Suffocation and Drowning he the said William Manche< no role > then and there died And so
the Jurors aforesaid (upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said William
Manche in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by
Misfortune Came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Youings< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > Coroner

John YouingsForeman




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